Seven Double Limited

Rafi is a compulsive gambler at a crossroads. He must choose between his beloved wife and daughter and the football lottery, his life’s obsession. He is overtaken by all too familiar fantasies of wealth, the possibility of answering only to oneself and the joy of commanding the respect of others. >>

Second Life

The moment Neurobiologists discovered how to copy human memories to a hard drive, Mankind began abandoning the physical world for a virtual reality called Second Life.  In the wake of a growing shortage in memory storage, it was decided to minimize human interaction, and speech was outlawed. When finally remained in the physical reality, only […] >>

On The Way Back

Elyasaf Kowner’s work, On The Way Back, deals with one of the central fears and experiences of childhood- those getting lost. Kowner constructs the work alphabetically. Alphabet is a system that introduces the child into language. On the other hand, it enables and teaches him or her to orientate in the world. Yet, on the […] >>

Moon Hill

Precocious eleven-year-old Yoav and his family must leave their familiar neighborhood in Tel Aviv for new opportunties in the northern city of Nazrat Elit. Malka, his mother, finds a job in a hotel and with it, new confidence and assertiveness. His older sister Anat falls in love with a romantic would-be rock star whose own […] >>

Green Leaf

The story of the founder of the political party Ale Yarok, Shlomi Sandak, and his twenty year struggle for the legalization of cannabis in Israel. Shlomi’s son, Uri, became mentally ill after using hard drugs, and committed suicide. >>

Bear Hug

On a Spring’s day, a boy finds a bear tied to a tree in the forest – and sets it free. Through the changing of the seasons, the film follows the developing relationship between the civilized child and the untamed beast, and their naïve desire to coexist. >>

Reflections

Argentina, 1980. Anna, a teenage girl whose father was taken by the military regime, wants to taste life and fulfill her desire to dance. She is torn by her wish of a colorful life and the monotone wait of her mother and grandmother in their stuffy apartment. >>

Tomorrow’s Gone

Gabi Abudraham, a dreamy young man from Beit She’an who is obsessed with Elvis and virtuoso musical virtues, creates an eccentric character named Charlie Megira and sets out on a rocky musical journey to conquer the world while fighting demons from the past. >>

Week 23

For the first time, director Ohad Milstein points his camera at his own home. His partner Rahel, the daughter of a Swiss bishop, is pregnant with identical twins. In her 23rd week, she learns that one of the fetuses died in utero. Doctors say that in those rare cases when the other fetus doesn’t die […] >>

Think Popcorn

A tribute to the classic: “Man with a movie camera”/ Dziga Vertov (USSR 1929). A naïve documentary filmmaker, heavily armed with 3 cameras and a purple draped stage, sets out to roam his beloved country on his cheap motorcycle in order to bring to the screen the ultimate truth of his people. The racist and […] >>

The Autopsy of Sven Svensson

A patholog’s daily routine is being interrupted when he encounters a body in his image. >>

Paleosol 80 South

A poetic journey in the Israeli desert shot through a thermal camera. In apocalyptic surroundings, detached from time or place, lies a fascinating encounter between ancient mythologies and the political present. >>

Now, When The Waters are Pressing Mightily

A visual version with footage from the Tsunami Disaster. Following the publication of the poem at “The New Yorker” magazine. From the Project: “A sonnet for Yuda”, a cinematic visual tribute to the poems of Yehuda Amichai >>

Raging Souls

Twenty years after the Israeli rock group “Minimal Compact” was founded, the filmmaker, a lifetime fan, sets out on a journey to uncover the extraordinary story of the band which was popular in Europe in the 1980s, whose members are now scattered around Europe and Israel. Through interviews with former band members Rami Fortis, Berry […] >>

5 Broken Cameras

Nominated for an Oscar®, the film is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy […] >>